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An artistic medium is the substance the artistic work is made from. So for example acrylic and oil are two media common to painting.
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| x Oil paint |
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Mona Lisa |
Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. The viscosity of the paint may be modified by the addition of a solvent such as turpentine or white spirit, and varnish...
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| Guernica | |||
| White Flag | |||
| Samson and Delilah | |||
| Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 | |||
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| x Acrylic paint |
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Voice of Fire |
Acrylic paint is fast-drying paint containing pigment suspended in an acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylic paints can be diluted with water, but become water-resistant when dry. Depending on how much the paint is diluted (with water) or modified with...
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| Quattro Stagioni: Primavera | |||
| Life Imitating Art Imitating Life Imitating Art | |||
| Whaam! | |||
| The Bridge | |||
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| x Watercolor paint |
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Comedy |
Watercolor (US) or watercolour (UK) and also aquarelle, from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork, in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water soluble vehicle. The traditional and most...
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| A Young Lady's Adventure | |||
| Eggplant | |||
| Monument, Bermuda | |||
| Red Chimneys | |||
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| x Gouache |
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Corridor in the Asylum |
Gouache(English pronunciation: /ɡuːˈæʃ/; French: [ˈɡwaʃ]), the name of which derives from the Italian guazzo, water paint, splash or bodycolor (the term preferred by art historians) is a type of paint consisting of pigment suspended in water....
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| The Hat Makes the Man | |||
| Cubist Vertical | |||
| Four Part Brushstrokes | |||
| Untitled | |||
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| x Gelatin-silver process | Untitled (Man and mirror) |
The gelatin silver process is the photographic process used with currently available black-and-white films and printing papers. A suspension of silver salts in gelatin is coated onto a support such as glass, flexible plastic or film, baryta paper,...
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| x C-print |
C-print or Kodak C-print is a common brand name for a "color coupler print" or "digital color coupler print" and refers specifically to a photographic print made from a color negative using the same extremely light-sensitive silver salts as found in...
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| x Encaustic painting |
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White Flag |
Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The liquid/paste is then applied to a surface — usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used.
The...
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| x Newsprint |
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White Flag |
Newsprint is low-cost, non-archival paper most commonly used to print newspapers, plus other publications and advertising material. It usually has an off-white cast and distinctive feel. It is designed for use on printing presses that employ a long...
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| x Fabric | White Flag | ||
| Come Together | |||
| Passepartout | |||
| Divina Chair | |||
| Franciscan II | |||
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| x Charcoal |
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White Flag |
Charcoal is the black residue consisting of impure carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances. Charcoal is usually produced by slow pyrolysis, the heating of wood, sugar, bone char, or...
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| Woman | |||
| Untitled (Woman) | |||
| Church Façade/Church at Domburg (formerly Cathedral) | |||
| Woman | |||
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| x Ceramic |
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Fountain |
A ceramic is an inorganic, non-metallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. Ceramic materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or may be amorphous (e.g., a glass). Because most common ceramics are...
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| YaYa Ho Lighting System | |||
| Skyscraper Vase | |||
| Iceberg | |||
| Untitled, from the Step series | |||
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| x Varnish | The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even |
Varnish is a transparent, hard, protective finish or film primarily used in wood finishing but also for other materials. Varnish is traditionally a combination of a drying oil, a resin, and a thinner or solvent. Varnish finishes are usually glossy...
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| x Lead wire | |||
| x Foil | The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even | ||
| x Newspaper |
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Flag |
A newspaper is a publication containing news, information, and advertising. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on political events, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports. Most traditional papers also feature an...
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| Factum I | |||
| Numbers in Color | |||
| x Pastel |
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Woman I |
Pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low...
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| Oedipus Complex | |||
| Untitled (Head of a young man with model airplane), study for the mural... | |||
| Untitled (Ducks) | |||
| Untitled (Landscape on mirror table) | |||
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| x Crayon |
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Woman I |
A crayon (pronounced /ˈkɹei.ən/) is a stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk, or other materials used for writing, coloring, and drawing. A crayon made of oiled chalk is called an oil pastel; when made of pigment with a dry binder, it is simply a...
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| The Scream | |||
| Quattro Stagioni: Primavera | |||
| City Rooftop | |||
| Oregon Coast | |||
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| x Graphite |
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Woman I |
The mineral graphite is one of the allotropes of carbon. It was named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789 from the Greek γραφειν (graphein): "to draw/write", for its use in pencils, where it is commonly called lead, as distinguished from the actual...
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| Working drawing for Wall Drawing #937: Various shapes in color | |||
| Junior High School, Hertforshire, England | |||
| Suprematist Drawing | |||
| Untitled | |||
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| x Photograph |
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Atlas: Panel 8 |
A photograph (often shortened to photo) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a...
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| Verboten | |||
| Clandestine | |||
| Still Life | |||
| One Onion Canon | |||
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| x Porcelain |
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Michael Jackson and Bubbles |
Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200 °C (2,192 °F) and 1,400 °C (2,552 °F). The toughness, strength, and translucence of porcelain...
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| Sponge Vase | |||
| Porcelain Lamp | |||
| #2 Exile Series | |||
| Skepticism and the Life of Emile Zola | |||
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| x Beeswax |
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Untitled |
Beeswax is a natural wax produced in the bee hive of honey bees of the genus Apis. Worker bees (the females) have eight wax-producing mirror glands on the inner sides of the sternites (the ventral shield or plate of each segment of the body) on...
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| AIDS | |||
| Untitled | |||
| Untitled Leg | |||
| The Passageway | |||
| x Human hair | Untitled | ||
| x Willow |
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Untitled |
Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most species are known as willow, but some narrow-leaved...
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| x Bronze |
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Untitled |
Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive, but sometimes with other elements such as phosphorus, manganese, aluminium, or silicon. It was particularly significant in antiquity, giving its name to...
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| The Thinker | |||
| Amoeba | |||
| Boudica and Her Daughters | |||
| Judith and Holofernes | |||
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| x Silver plating | Untitled | ||
| x Pewter |
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Drains |
Pewter is a malleable metal alloy, traditionally between 85 and 99 percent tin, with the remainder consisting of copper, antimony, bismuth and lead. Copper and antimony act as hardeners while lead is common in the lower grades of pewter, which have...
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| x Screen-printing |
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Untitled |
Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the...
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| Daystones | |||
| Knoll Shopping Bag | |||
| Princeton University School of Architecture Fall 1993 Lectures | |||
| Cover Your Head/Wear a Condom! | |||
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| x Wax |
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Large Girl with No Eyes |
Wax refers to beeswax or another substance with similar properties. The traditional meaning, beeswax, refers to a substance secreted by bees and used by them in constructing their honeycombs. The term has come to refer more generally to a class of...
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| HOMAGE TO CHESSMAN | |||
| HEART/WORM/MIRROR | |||
| Hippopotamus Poison | |||
| Hanging Heads #2 (Blue Andrew with Plug/White Julie, Mouth Closed) | |||
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| x Metal |
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Francis Bacon |
A metal is a chemical element that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat and forms cations and ionic bonds with non-metals. In chemistry, a metal (Ancient Greek métallon, μέταλλον) is an element, compound, or alloy characterized by high...
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| Mobile | |||
| Bed for Ralph du Casse | |||
| Ducati Senna 916 Series III Motorcycle | |||
| Trophy IV (For John Cage) | |||
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| x Tempera |
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The Scream |
Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent fast drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium (usually a glutinous material such as egg yolk or some other size). Tempera also refers to the...
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| The Birth of Venus | |||
| Doni Tondo | |||
| The Entombment | |||
| Madonna and Child | |||
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| x Marble |
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Pietà |
Marble is a non foliated metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone, composed mostly of calcite (a crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3). It is extensively used for sculpture, as a building material, and in many other...
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| Bacchus | |||
| Battle of the Centaurs | |||
| Cristo della Minerva | |||
| Cupid | |||
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| x Canvas |
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Madonna |
Canvas is an extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other functions where sturdiness is required. It is also popularly used as a painting surface, typically stretched, and on fashion handbags...
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| Bonaparte Crossing the Alps | |||
| Lansdowne portrait | |||
| Portrait of Pope Paul V | |||
| Portrait of Maffeo Barberini | |||
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| x White patinated bronze | |||
| x Rubber |
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Mamelles |
Natural rubber is an elastomer (an elastic hydrocarbon polymer) that was originally derived from a milky colloidal suspension, or latex, found in the sap of some plants. The purified form of natural rubber is the chemical polyisoprene, which can...
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| Embryologic House [flat model] | |||
| Shattered | |||
| x Fiberglass |
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Mamelles |
Fiberglass, (also called fibreglass and glass fibre), is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. It is used as a reinforcing agent for many polymer products; the resulting composite material, properly known as fiber-reinforced polymer ...
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| Sans II | |||
| La Fonda Chair | |||
| Wax Impressions of the Knees of Five Famous Artists | |||
| Nesting Tables | |||
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| x Wood |
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Mamelles |
Wood is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers (which are strong in tension) embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression. In the strict sense wood is produced as secondary xylem in the stems of trees (and other...
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| Mobile | |||
| Crucifix | |||
| Portinari Triptych | |||
| Untitled (Uncertainty Principle) | |||
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| x Pencil | Quattro Stagioni: Primavera | ||
| Sketch for a Studio, 1919 | |||
| A Tall Building on a Small Lot, Elevations | |||
| Wall Drawing #132: A 36 in. (90 cm) grid covering the wall. All two-part ... | |||
| Ringaround Arosie | |||
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| x Aluminium | |||
| x Aluminium |
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Lightning with Stag in its Glare |
Aluminium ( ˌæljʊˈmɪniəm (help·info), al-yoo-MIN-ee-əm) or aluminum ( /əˈluːmɪnəm/ (help·info), ə-LOO-mi-nəm, see spelling below) is a silvery white and ductile member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al; its atomic number...
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| L'instantaneite ou le Parachute Perenneen | |||
| Rolling Discs | |||
| La Fonda Table Prototype | |||
| Broken Circle | |||
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| x Wire |
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Mobile |
A wire is a single, usually cylindrical, string of metal. Wires are used to bear mechanical loads and to carry electricity and telecommunications signals. Wire is commonly formed by drawing the metal through a hole in a die or draw plate. Standard...
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| The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even | |||
| Wire Chair (DKR1) | |||
| Cow | |||
| 12th Wire Octagonal | |||
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| x String | Mobile | ||
| Tête et Feuille; Tête et Vase/Kopf und Blatt; Kopf und Vase (Head and Leaf... | |||
| x Mixed Media |
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From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rose Sélavy |
Mixed media refers to an artwork that uses different mediums. Mixed media artowrks frequently incorporate elements, techniques, and materials from painting, photography, drawing, digital art, and sculpture.
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| Untitled (Computer) | |||
| Ten, A (#6) | |||
| RAY CHARLES/SNAKESKIN | |||
| Cherub for a | |||
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| x Thread |
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Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibers, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery and ropemaking. Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine. Modern...
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| x WEB |
WEB is a computer programming system created by Donald E. Knuth as the first implementation of what he called "literate programming": the idea that one could create software as works of literature, by embedding source code inside descriptive text,...
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| x Video | The Reflecting Pool |
Video is the first album by French DJ Pakito. It's a dancefloor album with big electro sounds.
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| Getaway | |||
| Ophelia | |||
| x Postcard |
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Landscape Near Figueras |
A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope. In some places, it is possible to send them for a lower fee than for a letter. Stamp collectors distinguish between...
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| x Found object |
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A found object, in an artistic sense, indicates the use of an object which has not been designed for an artistic purpose, but which exists for another purpose already. Found objects may exist either as utilitarian, manufactured items, or things ...
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| x Stainless steel |
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Aurora Fountain |
In metallurgy, stainless steel, also known as inox steel or inox, is defined as a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5 or 11% chromium content by mass. Stainless steel does not stain, corrode, or rust as easily as ordinary steel (it stains less, but...
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| Travel Bar | |||
| Purple/purple | |||
| Untitled | |||
| Two Lines Up-Contrapuntal | |||
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| x World Wide Web |
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My Google Search History |
The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW and W3 and commonly known as The Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents contained on the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other...
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| x colored pencil | Female Rejection Drawing, from the Rejection Quintet | ||
| Photo Albums | |||
| Chicago Rejection Drawing, from the Rejection Quintet | |||
| Ed Glaze | |||
| Rejection Breakthrough Drawing, from the Rejection Quintet | |||
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| x pearwood | Armchair | ||
| x printed cotton | Cutout Tablecloth [Tan and Natural] | ||
| Cutout Tablecloth [Orange and White] | |||
| Cutout Tablecloth [Pink and Red] | |||
| Cutout Tablecloth [Red and White] | |||
| x gelatin silver print | My Hand | ||
| Dirt For Sale, Cheap, Dallas, Texas | |||
| Steel Mill and Workers' Houses, Birmingham, Alabama | |||
| Dunes, Oceano | |||
| Untitled | |||
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| x caviar | Untitled | ||
| x electronic LED | I Am a Man | ||
| Electric Sign | |||
| x painted wood structure | Incomplete Open Cubes | ||
| x thirty gelatin silver prints | Month of June, from the series Found | ||
| x video monitors | Egg Grows | ||
| x polacolor prints | Topaz | ||
| x bonded nickel | The World Trade Center, from the series Buildings of Disaster | ||
| The Watergate, from the series Buildings of Disaster | |||
| The Unabomber's Cabin, from the series Buildings of Disaster | |||
| Chernobyl, from the series Buildings of Disaster | |||
| Oklahoma City Federal Building, from the series Buildings of Disaster | |||
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